So why don't we just pass a law that all electricians get paid $200k/year? In fact, why stop there, we can pay janitors $100k and mechanics $150k, we can increase all of their wages so that everyone is rich!
Except when you raise wages, the cost of everything goes up with it and therefore you're not any better off. Any discussion of wages that doesn't factor in cost of living is meaningless.
Allowing regions to compete with each other for skilled workers is the only way to ensure that backwards regions either get with the times or suffer from permanent brain drain.
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